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Llew Claasen
Llew Claasen Managing Partner Newtown Partners Llew Claasen is the Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, a venture capital firm founded by him and Vinny Lingham in 2014. The firm invests globally in early-stage, emerging technology and disruptive business model startups that drive economic activity in a fundamentally positive way. In 2019 they started working with...
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Djiba Diallo
Djiba Diallo Senior FinTech Advisor Ecobank Ms. Djiba Diallo DIAO is the Senior Fintech Advisor for Ecobank, leading the banks fintech initiatives and advising the senior management on the bank’s fintech strategy.  She is technology and Innovation enthusiast with more than fifteen years of experience in the ICT industry. She has a software developer background...
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Geoffrey Mulei
Geoffrey Mulei CEO Tanda Geoffrey Mulei is the founder and CEO of Tanda, a fintech startup that turns your everyday neighbourhood shop into a one stop shop for digital financial services. Tanda's mission is to bring digital financial services closer to over 100 Million underbanked africans by empowering last mile agents. Geoffrey leads Tanda’s product...
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Nnena Nkongho
Nnena Nkongho Principal DiGAME Nnena P. Nkongho is a Principal at Digital Growth Africa (DiGAME), an investment company founded in 2016 to support the digital transformation of the African continent.  DiGAME invests between US$2MM – to US$10MM in high-growth, entrepreneurial businesses that leverage technology to sustainably deliver goods/services and rapidly scale across markets, driving greater...
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Jens Glaso
Jens Glaso CEO & Founder Blockbonds Jens is an awarded Fintech Entrepreneur, Founder & Investor.  He has founded and developed several companies. Previous working experience; stockbroker, trader and advisor for SMEs and wealthy individuals. In 2005 he was hired as Executive Vice President for Optimum ASA in Kristiansand and Belgium. The company experienced a significant...
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Luis Verdeja
Luis Verdeja CEO Jobartis  Luis Verdeja is the CEO of job board Jobartis, which he currently directs. Jobartis, originally a online job board and today an innovative recruitment-tech solution is Angola's N.1 recruitment solution and is now present in five markets. Jobartis, which is today a 50-employee company, has experienced three-digit growth in the past...
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Eliud Mungai
Eliud Mungai Kenya Country Lead Carbon Eliud Mungai is Kenya Country Lead for Carbon and an experienced fintech and microfinance professional. He oversees operations for Carbon in Kenya and has previously worked in various roles that focus on mobile lending operations, loan originations, business development, financial management and people management, including roles at Branch and...
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Eka Ponkratova
Eka Ponkratova Digital Consultant enable|digital Eka Ponkratova is an experienced data consultant with experience in consulting services across industries, adding value to clients throughout the entire data lifecycle, starting from initial field data collection through data governance to visualization and reporting. After starting her career in the Data & Analytics practice in PwC Mexico, she...
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Kai Hansen
Kai Hansen CEO enable|digital Kai Hansen is the CEO for enable| digital and is a product builder, leader and data nerd that has worked with digital data for over 30 years. From humble beginnings when coding his own World Cup 1990 application in Pascal to analysing petabytes of data for Google Maps, he has worked...
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Patricia Obozuwa
Patricia Obozuwa Chief Communications & Public Affairs Officer GE Africa Patricia Obozuwa is the Chief Communications & Public Affairs Officer for GE Africa – a position she has held since April 2012 when she built the communications and public affairs function. Patricia leads a team of communicators across Sub-Saharan Africa, building and protecting GE’s brand...
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